Goat's Head Soup

Goats Head Soup - The Rob Fraboni Collection

Written by Joe Viglione

Friday, 28 August 2009 21:07

Produced by Jimmy Miller Engineer: Rob Fraboni 1. Dancing with Mr. D. Jagger, Richards 4:52 2 100 Years Ago Jagger, Richards 3:58 3 Coming Down Again Jagger, Richards 5:54 4 Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) Jagger, Richards 3:26 5 Angie Jagger, Richards 4:32 6 Silver Train Jagger, Richards 4:26 7 Hide Your Love Jagger, Richards 4:11 8 Winter Jagger, Richards 5:29 9 Can You Hear the Music Jagger, Richards 5:31 10 Star Star Jagger, Richards 4:23 GOAT'S HEAD SOUP: Or why the Rolling Stones still needed Jimmy Miller Stephen Thomas Erlewine at AllMusic.com calls this album "trippily decadent", which it is, no doubt about it. Erlewine also calls it excessive...and having worked with Jimmy Miller for a number of years I have some additional insight on what is probably the last great Stones record. True, it doesn't have the total magic of Exile On Main Street, Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed and Beggar's Banquet, but it is the fifth of the "Jimmy Miller" era (I guess you can include ...one must include...the brilliant Through The Past Darkly, Big Hits Vol. 2) Miller claimed that Keith played him a cassette of "It's Only Rock & Roll" and that the rough mixes were fantastic. The Glimmer Twins, somehow, lost the intuitive sparkly Jimmy Miller brought to the equation...sure he was a party boy, but at the end of the day he had the touch, he knew how to make a great record and even in his latter days when he was working with Buddy Guy, Genya Ravan, Aerosmith's Joe Perry and others with our production company on a very tight budget, he still brought his expertise and special skills to the game. Prior to Rob Fraboni meeting Jimmy Miller, Miller had worked on a number of 45s and albums by The Rolling Stones, "Street Fighting Man", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, "Honky Tonk Women", "Brown Sugar", Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street. Released in September of 1969, this album is a monster if you look back at it and think of the song structure, melody and how much fun these songs SOUNDED on the radio. It was a special time in large part to what The Beatles were doing with their colleagues, Mick, Keith and the gang, as so perfectly documented here. The British counterpart has some different tracks and certainly a different chronological arrangement of these classics, and perhaps both versions are worth owning 1.Paint It Black 3:23 2.Ruby Tuesday 3.She's A Rainbow 4.Jumpin' Jack Flash 5.Mother's Little Helper 6.Let's Spend The Night Together 7.Honky Tonk Women 8.Dandelion 9.2000 Light Years From Home 10.Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow? 11.Street Fighting Man

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